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Also known as the Bogside Massacre, Bloody Sunday (Irish: Domhnach na Fola), occurred on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, a region with a concentrated Catholic population. During a peaceful civil rights march, soldiers from the British Army’s Parachute Regiment opened fire on unarmed demonstrators and bystanders, resulting in the deaths of 14 civilians. Thirteen people were killed on the day of the incident, and a fourteenth victim died months later from his injuri